English words for 'The act or process of romanticizing.'
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noun
- The act or process of idealizing.
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- something that exists only as an idea
noun
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
- An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
- Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
- An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
- Something imaginary or lacking substance.
noun
adj
- Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).
- (figurative, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
- (chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
- overly sweet
noun
adj
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
- Experiencing romantic attraction.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- (chiefly historical) Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
adj
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- Out of control.
- Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
- (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
- foolish; totally unsound
- affected with madness or insanity
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- bizarre or fantastic
- possessed by inordinate excitement
adv
noun
verb
- act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression
- make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
- look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment
- (transitive) To give a sentimental feel to.
- (intransitive) To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental.
noun
- (figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.
- (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
- A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
- any thick, viscous matter
verb
noun
- An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
- A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
- Fervor, determination.
- Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
- Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
- (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
- A true desire sustained or prolonged.
- any object of warm affection or devotion
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- something that is desired intensely
- a strong feeling or emotion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- a feeling of strong sexual desire
verb
noun
- a predilection for sentimentality
- the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
- (philosophy) A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
- An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality.
- A liking for sentimental things.
noun
- The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- A romantic infatuation; a crush.
- A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.
- (dialectal) A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
- Any obsession or passion.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
verb
noun
- A romantic or sexual involvement.
- (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
- (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
- A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
- Connection or association; the condition of being related.
- Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
- a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and unemployment’, but the preferred usage of ‘relationship’ is for human relations or states of relatedness)
- a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
- a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
- (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
noun
- The act or process of idealizing.
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- something that exists only as an idea
noun
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
- An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
- Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
- An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
- Something imaginary or lacking substance.
noun
adj
- Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).
- (figurative, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
- (chiefly botany, geology) Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.
- overly sweet
noun
adj
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
- Experiencing romantic attraction.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- (chiefly historical) Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
noun
- (figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.
- (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
- A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
- any thick, viscous matter
verb
noun
- An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
- A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
- Fervor, determination.
- Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
- Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
- (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
- A true desire sustained or prolonged.
- any object of warm affection or devotion
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- something that is desired intensely
- a strong feeling or emotion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- a feeling of strong sexual desire
verb
noun
- a predilection for sentimentality
- the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
- (philosophy) A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
- An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality.
- A liking for sentimental things.
noun
- The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- A romantic infatuation; a crush.
- A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.
- (dialectal) A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
- Any obsession or passion.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
verb
noun
- A romantic or sexual involvement.
- (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
- (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
- A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
- Connection or association; the condition of being related.
- Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
- a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and unemployment’, but the preferred usage of ‘relationship’ is for human relations or states of relatedness)
- a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
- a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
- (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
verb
- act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression
- make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
- look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment
- (transitive) To give a sentimental feel to.
- (intransitive) To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental.
adj
- In love; experiencing romantic feelings.
- Very excited or enthusiastic.
- Out of control.
- Of unsound mind; insane; demented.
- (informal) Very unexpected; wildly surprising.
- foolish; totally unsound
- affected with madness or insanity
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- bizarre or fantastic
- possessed by inordinate excitement
adv
noun
noun
adj
- Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
- Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
- Experiencing romantic attraction.
- Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
- (chiefly historical) Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.
- Alternative letter-case form of Romantic
- not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts